Multimegawatt peak-power, single-transverse-mode operation of a 100 μm core diameter, Yb-doped rodlike photonic crystal fiber amplifier

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Brooks, Christopher D. [1 ]
Di Teodoro, Fabio [1 ]
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[1] Aculight Corp, Bothell, WA 98011 USA
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10.1063/1.2348742
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The authors report on the performance of an Yb-doped, 100 mu m core rodlike photonic crystal fiber (PCF) used as the final amplifier in a gain-staged master-oscillator/power-amplifier source. From the PCF, they obtained 1-ns-long pulses of energy in excess of 4.3 mJ, peak/average power similar to 4.5 MW/42 W, and spectral linewidth similar to 20 GHz. The PCF emitted a beam exhibiting near-Gaussian, single-transverse-mode profile of M-2 similar to 1.3. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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